'-"few T3 is,. VOL. 2U. IS VERY CLOSE. Returns From the Kentucky Contest Look Bad For Breckinridge.- OWENS OVER 300 AHEAD. Supporters of the Former Re­ luctant to Acknowledge Defeat. LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 17.—The victors seek to possess the entire field the vanquished accept defeat manfully. This conclusion is justified by outside appearances here which be­ gan to manifest themselves early in the morning. One notable indication was the doffing of Breckinridge badges and donning Owens badges by the most ar­ dent young bloods who supported Breckinridge throughout the campaign with their money and their personal services. They say they went to the election believing that every voter at the primaries was morally bound to suppott the nominees. Now that their favorite, for whom they fought so vali­ antly, seems to have suffered defeat, they feel in honor bound to support his opponent. They seem to acquiesce in the inevitable. The best figures ob­ tainable give returns for candidates as fo...

7 .?* ygfe "f ir-'i.' I® X'* SSkTfrrr. ,.-\a, W*'s 1,rf v» r* Elections In Maine and Ver­ mont Indicate tfceTenrtper" of the *n SJ &, *S^»s £-.*"': *1 it Third the East, as It Wilt in the West. Substantia! Benefits to Minne­ sota From Re publican. Ad­ ministration. The Republican flag hangs Highland flatters proudly in the breeze of populai approval this week. While everybody believed that the utter disgufit of the people of this couatiy with their experi ment of 1892 whidh showed itself at the polls in all this states where Election* occurred last year had increased rathei than diminished, there was no positive proof of it. Now Vermont and Maine have spoken. And they tell just the same story that was told a year ago by the 100,000 majority against Jlaynard in New York and the nearly 4200,000 for the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania. They have not only gone Republican, which was to be expected, but they have Given the Biggest Majorities for the ticket ever heard of. Vermont led...

i" p^' r" ^r"" SAYS HE HAD A MAJORITY. If the Committee Decides Oth­ erwise He Will Support the Nominee. CINCINNATI, Sept. 18.-—The Commer­ cial Gazette's Lexington special says: There seems to be no doubt about Colonel Breckinridge making a fight for the nomination before the district committee. Breckinridge has made public a statement in which he says he secured a majority of the legal Demo­ cratic votes of the district and fraud was practiced against him in several counties. The following is Breckin­ ridge's statement: "The Democratic committee of the district alone has the power to declare who is the nominee, and until that declaration is made no one is the nom­ inee of the party, and when it is made I will loyally submit to this" decision and support the person Declared to Be the Nominee. "Under the law and under the rule of the party it alone has the power to as­ certain which votes have been cast and what votes shall be counted and what declared to be fraudulent. No court has...

-®M& I \y :.%• ."••# WW v*?Vl ft*/# PIP' mm and Pittsburg Phil Just as They Are. DfONTE CBISTOS OF BOOKMAKERS. Crranaan Backs His Own Opinions and Wins or Loses Indifferently—Pittsburg Phil's Up and Down Career—Two Re­ markable Gamblers Portrayed* Such a frail looking boy! Riley Gran nan, the new plunger at horse racing, has not yet reached bis twenty-fourth year. His small dark eyes seem to laugh at the awful thinness and anxiety of his face. Although he is about 6 feet 8% inches in height, he cannot weigh more than 126 pounds. As he lifts his hat for a moment he shows a fairly well balanced head, but neither his forehead nor his features gen- RILEY GRANNAN. erally indicate that ruggedness of •charac­ ter which one would look for in a man who could carve success out of such a busi­ ness as bookmaking. Only five years ago this boy was run­ ning an elevator in a Louisville hotel. Starting out with a capital of $5, he is now master of a bank account that could not be bought for $2...

f*a '-V-' fr* («, "i' -V ••••v ,4 47 «a &•? £ii Prairie 'i' •OB PRINT!NC THE TRANStMPI JOB S NOW SUPPLIED WITH NEW MATERIAL, TROUGHOUT. NEAT, CHEAP AND RAPID. Miss Sadie Farquliar, of St. PaulJ arrived Sunday evening and will trim at Mrs. P. F. Uosch's millinery store this season. Baggageman Hawley let a sample case fall on his foot and injured it sotbat he left Monday morningfor his home at Burtrum. Rev. J. F. Bacon, of St. Cloud, preached at the Congregational church Sunday in excnange with Rev. Moore, who preached at St. Cloud. Mr. and Mrs. Thraerner, the Royalton couple who took a Wedding tour on bicycles, have returned and settled down to housekeeping. No. 58, the way freight,. was de­ layed here about live hours Monday. A locomotive pulling a stock train broke down near Sauk Rapids and the way freight machine was sent to pull it to Minneapolis. R. S. Eide was down from Randall Monday attending the Republican convention. He says that fires started up again on Friday and thr...

I: & A I,^W^*'r v: What Has Seen Done at the Court House Since Monday. The September term of the District' .ut on the bench. The grand jury was sworn and a number of the jurors were excused. The jury then went out in charge of the foreman N. Briggs. A number of tne petit jurors were also excused and a special venue was issued for seven jurors to till their places. Judge Baxter then adjourned court until tomorrow morningat9o'clock. The calendar is quite a large one, but it is probable that all the cases will be disposed of this week. Court convened Tuesday 'at 9 o'clock with Judge L. JL. Baxter, of Fergus Falls, on the bench. The first jury case was that of Peter Kuborn vs. John A. Freeberg. It was over an ice house which the plaintiff claimed, and for the value of which he sued defendant. The judge instructed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and they did so. The case of Chas. Pullman vs. J. W. Manbeck to recover for the service of his horse was called. The jury br...

K? V- Wi b^#85 W V.' 1 J |s fei?: 'Zix $pv 10 jj® FACT3 ABOUT lAIRS, TJHEY WERE ORIGINALLY HELD AS ANNUAL GENERAL MARKETS. Such Fairs Are Still Held In Some Parts of Europe, the Most Famous Perhaps Be jtng That of Nijni Novgorod—Irish. Fairs. The German "MascH." This is the season of the county fair, one of the most curious and interesting of human observances. The county fair as held in the United States is an evo­ lution from the fair of remote antiquity and has its counterpart in every country whose inhabitants are lifted above the level of abject savagery. But, though all fairs possess features in common and all sprang from the same begin­ ning, they differ greatly in different lands. The object of all is the promotion of business. The first established annual fair was a market, pure and simple- WATCHING THE GROWTH OF A PUMPKIN. •where producers, merchants and con­ sumers could meet once a year and do their buying, selling and trading for a whole twelvemonth in the space of a fe...

fefe- .- j^ii L-v if* mf- In Klx^.k tu r' lb *2^' if r» THE PINAL LESSON. WHAT LABOR SHC|*LD LEARN FROM THE GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE. The Government Most Be In Fact of, F«l and by the People—Laws Construed In Plutocracy's Interest The Villainous Course off the Press and Wliat It Means* The greatest strike ever known." uch is* the general characterization of ihe strike which grow out of the boycott levied upon Pullman palace cars by the American Railway union. It depends upon the point of view whether, in measuring the a fx air and declaring it greater tyan any of its predecessors, one has in mind its extent as to territory covered and persons involved, the issues at stake or the prophecy it contained of (the future of the industrial movement, jit would be a waste of time and space jto compare this contest between em­ ployees and employers with any of the struggles which have taken place with­ in the past 20 years. As. a matter of fact, it has been, judged simply as a boy­ cott and strik...

r? Vr 'I SCORES DEAD. The Cyclone of Friday Night Proves Most Terrible in Its Results. VERY WIDE AREA COVERED. Sixty Persons Perish in Iowa and a Dozen or More in Minnesota. MASON CITY, la., Sept. 24.—The cy­ clone which swept over Northeastern Iowa Friday night caused the loss of at least 60 lives and the death list will no doubt reach 100. A large number of people were in­ jured, some fatally, while the destruc­ tion of property was enormous. The storm started near Emmetsburg and traveled in a northeasterly direc­ tion, crossing the Minnesota line near Le Boy. The path of the storm lay 13 miles north of this city. Four persons were battered to death by falling timbers, and nine injured and not expected to live. At the farm of David Haddow, the house was lifted in the air over a grove of trees, landed in a cornfield, then Swept Back Against the Trees, smashing to bits and killing Haddow and wife. A lad, 15 years old, was blown three-quarters of a mile away. He still lives. At the f...

13^ A a** •m" sF4r f* &w*L t*V *V j. iVf ,-fJ I'/f 3ct, fv %t UK VlV* -4 hr~ w-m •ill ,M%p: People's Party Demand For Government Ownership 7 of Railways.^ As a Practical Affair, It Would Be Too Expensive sind Hazardous." No One Has Pointed Out the First Step That CoUId Be Safely Taken. "We demand the government ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs and telephone*" This declaration is found in the Peo­ ple's party platform of 189$, is reiter­ ated in its national platform in 1894, and is an acknowledged tenet of the People's .party .faith in nation and state. Indeed, in some localities, the People's party movement grew entirely out of opposition to railroad interests and found its highest purpose in the de­ mand that the railroads should be sur­ rendered to and operated by the general government. It is proposed to examine this propo­ sition as a practical affair in some de­ tail. First will be considered the difficul­ ties in tho way of realizing this theory in the Uni...

1 ',.1 iW Si\ If! 1 im\ ation i5 %M •i'i "i 'MI •fVv\* *^r&+x p#f!ll-!'? J$c:!fl''»r ^w i-K* V'-Sjij-V -%-t rm:m 4SI tJ POPULAR ,j, For Governor of i-'/'M, HIS DECLINATION PROBABLE. ®^#"SPx-Secretary Whitney Choice of the Tammany Braves. SARATOGA, Sept. 25.-—There is not a man versed in the ways of conventions of political parties that ever saw a sit­ uation like that which confronts the Democratic convention. The predica­ ment is explained in a very few words by Lieutenant Governor Sheehan. He said: "There ip not a man or politician1 here who knows who the nominee of the party will be until the convention decides. It is anybody or any faction candidate and the convention will be a Democratic one in every sense of the word" It is perfectly probable and not at all Seymour for governor, he afterwards declining to run and Robinson being selected as the candidate. Hill the Most Popular. The reception that will be accorded to Senator Hill by the convention will un­ doubtedly take a r...

1 fiit* f»M«v 4 I W fciH, --i* tr $&/ WW- 1 HILL ACCEPTS. The Senator From New York Decides to Make the Run —For Governor. HE APPRECIATES THE HONOR. Unparalleled Scenes of En­ thusiasm at the Saratoga Convention. ALBANY, Sept. 27.—Senator Hill and Hon. Dan Lockwood, the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor respectively, were serenaded at the Kenmore hotel when they came from Saratoga by the Albany Democratic phalanx. A mighty swell of voices went up when Senator Hill was intro­ duced. He said: "For this gracious reception and the compliment of this serenade I tender )u my sincere thanks. This demon- D. B. HILL. etration is a part of unexpected events of the day which to me has been one of mingled surprise and embarrassment. The action of the Democratic conven­ tion, which is the occasion of this as­ semblage, and which was as unforeseen by you as by myself, impose responsi­ bilities and obligations of which I can­ not speak tonight. "Unwilling as I was to receive the ...

„J^ lik 'i $ $ V-.* -J ^X &:' V^l'v v'V", '•••.{ .« .&• §& I. iv, 'I: M:'- K' 'V $ SNOW ^§Xl s- "OB PRINTING' IBB TEASSfflUT JOB OFFlffl SM' It is pleasant to see that the Dem­ ocrat makes an effort to tell some thing about county finances, but the ^fellow who made up that table of figures was a little,too foxey for any use. It might do to spring the last day of a campaign, but it will not bear scrutiny. Just examine it, and try to comprehend what it is intend­ ed to prove. .R WITH tfEW MATERIAL TROTOHOUT. HEATi CHEAP AUTO RAPID. H. W. Donovan has accepted a position with the First National Bank'.' P. W. Blake's delivery team ran away Friday and succeeded in break­ ing the wagon pole before they were topped. Robert Carnes, of Royalton, Is at­ tending the district court. Mr. Carnes graduated from the law de­ partment of the State University last spring* A paper or an official who will publish a misleading statement, thereby acknowledges that the sim­ ple, plain truth is n...

If* VUr A f: ,* '':. IJ.I*. •'.•'• Jfe A fefgi }V ••¥•'. 1 v/ •'-.. S iK ,rrv»flH :itoy TWO CONVENTIONS, Democrats and People*® Rarty Hold. Separate Meetings at the Start. "Will Probably Fuse and Be One Before the Close How­ ever. The Democratic legislative conven­ tion for the 46th district met at the court house Tuesday for the purpose of placing' in nomination one senator and four representatives. An official call was not published but the delegates were notified by wrire and they were 011 hand by the time the convention was called to order. The convention was called to or­ der by chairman F. W. Lyon, of Morrison, and A.JS. Strauss,01Todd, was chosen secretary. A committee on credentials con­ sisting of C. J. Haines, of Morrison Frank Newton, of Mille Lacs and J. H. Sheets, of Todd, was appointed and reported the following delegates entitled to seats in the convention: Crow Wing—H. C. Stivers, Geo. Keough. Mille Lacs—J? rank Newton. Morrison—C. J. Haines, C. I. Mc Nuir, by 0. •)....